Cerro el Plomo 5434m asl

Believe it or not, we still have a fairly decent "to-do" list of adventures in Chile. One of the items that had been there (and in real life looking right back at us most days) is Cerro el Plomo. Despite being called "cerro", which in Spanish means "small mountain", this is the biggest mountain around the Santiago area and it stands proudly at 5434 above sea level. It can be seen from most places in Santiago (pollution allowing) and back in the Inca days it had an "Apu" status: The incas believed that the biggest mountains had a spirit/god.

Who´s eating who?

We are in the middle of the summer now and from previous years we remember that this is the time when the spiders and other creepy crawlers that we share our house with are most active. This morning we found the outcome of what looked like an epic struggle on the wall next to the washing machine, just outside the kitchen door (WARNING: contains images that some of you may find unpleasant)...